... first half I continued to play defense as the two teams gave it their best. Meanwhile, the game was almost half way over, the score had been tied for the previous fifteen minutes. During half time everyone discussed a stradegy to change the score. Then, to start the second half of the game I sat the bench. The coach had explained to me that our ... in front of me and saw no one to challenge. I knew pressure was on me to get the ball down the field and score. The score had been tied for minutes without end. I began dribbling the ball down the field and came to the first and only person i...

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• Grade Level: High School

... now I'm getting bored! I hear footsteps!. "All-right!," My brother's are home.! "Willie!," "I'm upstairs and ready to win!" He won't answer me! Maybe, he went to go see mom first. Several minutes have passed, now I hear him coming up the stairs. My back is turned, so I can't see him until he comes around the corner. "I have the game all ready to go ... people are, and no one has heard from them in weeks." They say, I'm lying, and again inform me, they have a place for me. I begin to cry. It has been about fifteen minutes now, and they finally allow me go to be with my mother. I walk dow...

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• Grade Level: High School

... just left the person there to die. It was horrible to look at. I had a very bad feeling about this hospital and for what was to come. There were at least fifteen people in the room and they were all crying, praying out loud, hollering, or just quiet. It was a little awkward because most of them were acting as if he had ... and connection he had when he felt my presence. I told him that I loved him and that I wanted him to get better so we could work on our relationship. After a few minutes, I left his room and went looking for a bathroom to get myself together. Visiting hours was alread...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . So I said no thanks when everyone else went into one of my friends back yard to smoke. I am very glad I left when I did, my friends parents got home about six minutes later and discovered them smoking in the back yard. His parents called all of my friends parents and my best friend Matt was grounded for a month. I told my parents what ... because I did the right thing. As I grew older I was a good kid. I was in boy scouts, I played sports, helped around the house, and didn't get into to much trouble. When I turned fifteen I started high school and I thought that my parents were the wor...

• Word Count: 1298
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 3 weeks.. The last few weeks of my pregnancy were extremely horrifying because I was getting really uneasy. My nerves were shot and I was constantly crying. I had been so worried about being fifteen and having a baby but, I never was so scared in my life until I stared to have pains running through my stomach and back. I called my mom at work and asked he ... and she told me that the baby was coming. She told me that she would be home in an hour or so but if the pain started to come every 5 minutes or so that I should call 911 and tell them that I was in labor. Just as I was about to go...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School